EXCLUSIVE: Newly Married Woman Who Stopped Working With Patience Jonathan In 2018 Among Domestic Staff Detained Since 2019 Over Missing Jewellery

SaharaReporters exclusively gathered that the woman, Tamunosiki Achese, a erstwhile Personal Assistant to Mrs. Jonathan, had near her presumption earlier the arguable theft took place. 

A pistillate who stopped moving for erstwhile First Lady, Patience Jonathan, soon aft getting joined successful 2018 is among the 15 home unit rotting successful Bayelsa State situation since 2019 implicit a missing jewellery assertion that has ne'er been proven successful court, SaharaReporters tin report. 

SaharaReporters exclusively gathered that the woman, Tamunosiki Achese, a erstwhile Personal Assistant to Mrs. Jonathan, had near her presumption earlier the arguable theft took place. 

Yet, she was rounded up and locked away, on with others, successful what sources adjacent to the lawsuit described arsenic a vindictive enactment by the erstwhile First Lady.

“Tamunosiki was her PA. She got joined immoderate months earlier the incidental happened and she was nary longer moving with her,” a root adjacent to the erstwhile archetypal woman told SaharaReporters. 

“But due to the fact that she near aft marriage, Patience Jonathan decided to apprehension her,” the root said. 

The root added, “She (Patience Jonathan) said she would usage each her powerfulness to marque definite Tamunosiki remains successful jail. She wasn’t adjacent staying successful Bayelsa anymore — she had moved to Okrika. She near successful 2018 and the jewellery went missing successful 2019.”

This revelation comes days aft SaharaReporters obtained a gut-wrenching video of a 90-year-old pistillate begging Patience Jonathan to escaped her daughter, Deborah Erema, who has been detained for implicit 5 years without trial.

In the heartbreaking footage, the frail aged woman, visibly starving and neglected, wept profusely arsenic she pleaded for her daughter’s release.

“Nobody spell springiness maine food, nah lone her dey springiness me. I don’t person anybody. I conscionable spell beg beg. I americium present a beggar. See maine arsenic I dey now,” she cried. “Please merchandise my daughter, marque she spell find nutrient for me. If I dice now, who spell hide me. Nah lone her I get.”

SaharaReporters tin corroborate that Deborah Erema and 14 others, including Tamunosiki Achese, Williams Alami, Vincent Olabiyi, Ebuka Cosmos, and others, person been languishing successful detention since 2019 — without immoderate condemnation oregon important trial.

According to insiders, immoderate of the detainees became targets simply due to the fact that they refused to beryllium portion of a crippled to implicate others.

“As for Vincent Olabiyi and Ebuka Cosmos, she asked them to basal arsenic mendacious witnesses against others and they refused. That was wherefore they were arrested too,” the root added. “They’ve besides spent astir six years successful situation for that.”

The database of detainees includes John Dashe, Tamunokuro Abaku, Sahabi Lima, Emmanuel Aginwa, Precious Kingsley, Salomi Wareboka, Sunday Reginald, Boma Oba, Vivian Golden, and Emeka Benson.

SaharaReporters learnt that their arrests followed allegations by Patience Jonathan that immoderate of her jewellery was stolen.